For the second time in less than a week, a skier lost his life while skiing, this time, Tuesday morning, on the Avila slope of Sommet Saint-Sauveur, in Piedmont in the Laurentians.
The skier’s death was not the result of a collision.
“We were contacted around 10 a.m.,” says Marc Tessier, information officer for the Outaouais-Laurentides region at the Sûreté du Québec. A skier fell, was seriously injured and was transported to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead. »
An investigator is still on site to try to understand what happened, but according to Mr. Tessier, it is not a collision.
Friday, a teenager lost his life after falling from a ski lift at the Morin-Heights ski resort, which also belongs to the Sommets company.
In today’s tragedy, the death occurred on the track.
More details to come.